Ruth Madievsky

"I was good at coming up with snappy sentences too weak to hold up an actual plot" is a line I just wrote in my novel draft that's hitting a little too close to home

“a witness to history” is cracking me up. like she remembers the cuban missile crisis

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when you try to look cute for work and your toddler hits you with a “what’s that mommy”

every amazon brand is called XITZ or POOSY

oof

A Denis Johnson thought I have every day, looking around at the world we have and wishing for the one I thought we were going to make: "That world! These days it’s all been erased and they’ve rolled it up like a scroll and put it away somewhere. Yes, I can touch it with my fingers. But where is it?"

You can now search for your books to know if they qualify for the Anthropic settlement. As I suspected, the book I published in 2015 counts, and the one from 2025 that was stolen before it had been published does not. secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup

When Adoption Promises Are Broken Many birth mothers hope to maintain contact with their child. But their agreements with adoptive parents can be fragile.

If you want to understand open adoption, it makes sense to start with birth parents—yet studies of them are few. 2+ yrs ago, I began talking w/ birth mothers to try to understand what living in an open adoption is like for them, and what rights or options they might have if challenges were to arise.

BEINGS tour poster with the info: Wednesday, September 24 / Los Angeles, CA / Skylight Books Monday, September 29 / Philadelphia, PA / Head House Books Tuesday, September 30 / Washington, DC / Loyalty Bookstore Wednesday, October 1 / New York, NY / The Strand Bookstore Thursday, October 2 / Providence, RI / Riffraff Bookstore and Bar Friday, October 3 / Cambridge, MA / Porter Square Books Thursday, October 9 / Bronxville, NY / Sarah Lawrence College Saturday, October 11 / Tarzana, CA / Sunny’s Bookshop Wednesday, November 12 / Lincoln, NE / Francie & Finch Bookshop

I'm going on tour with BEINGS this week, and I'm very nervous and also excited! Here's the rundown - if you live in these cities or know someone who does, please come/tell them to come???

Philly - Mon, 9/29
Washington, DC - Tues, 9/30
NYC - Wed, 10/1
Providence - Thurs, 10/2
Boston - Fri, 10/3

lfg

To write about sales track is, essentially, to write about everything—career longevity, creative pressure, labor issues, capital, and what winds up on readers' bookshelves:

The Publishing Industry Has a Gambling Problem | The Walrus Companies keep betting on the next bestseller. Literature is poorer for it

I spent the summer reporting this essay on why it seems harder than ever to sell a book right now—especially if it isn't a debut and comes with the dreaded "sales track." I'm grateful to the writers, agents, editors, publishers & experts who spoke to me for this piece: thewalrus.ca/the-publishi...

National Poetry Month Day 27: Ruth Madievsky - The Rumpus We celebrate National Poetry Month with new poems daily, illustrating a variety of voices and perspectives in contemporary poetry.

“Seventeen, flirting with drunk boys when their girlfriends went home. Their beautiful fifteen-year-old girlfriends, their chemically straightened hair, their white designer jeans.” @ruthmadievsky.bsky.social, “In High School [We all knew...]” @therumpus.net therumpus.net/2020/04/27/n...

my dad is heartbroken because someone snatched the toy stomach he got my toddler at a medical conference

I couldddd work on my next novel or I could online shop for more toddler light up sneakers. I feel like I know how this is going to play out

can we all free ourselves of the delusion that we will ever make our toddlers beet waffles. who am I saving these videos for

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All-Night Pharmacy by Ruth Madievsky Rachel Kushner meets David Lynch in this fever dream of an LA novel about a young woman who commi...

“You can’t reach a mutual understanding without spilling blood.”

Excerpt From
All-Night Pharmacy
@ruthmadievsky.bsky.social

This book is a near-life experience

#queersky 🌈 #booksky 📚 #bibabesbookclub

going on book tour (taking my toddler to the library)

you can distract a wife with interesting cheeses

'Bi Babes' Book Club Q&A With Ruth Madievsky Zachary Zane will be speaking with the All-Night Pharmacy author this Thursday, August 7th, at 9 pm ET/6 PT over Zoom.

details here:

zacharyzane.substack.com/p/bi-babes-b...

join me & legendary boyslut zachary zane for a scandalous zoom book club about ALL-NIGHT PHARMACY tomorrow 8/7 at 6 PT 👀

the PBS / NPR stations are asking for your fiscal support. if you do not have that to give, advocate for their survival instead of dreaming of their premature defeat.

This is my first started review ever. Feels nice. www.booklistonline.com/products/981...

love catching my toddler’s first words of the day. today it was “water bottle right there” like ok observational poet

every animal that boarded noah’s ark is in my toddler’s bed

yup!!!

ok but has anyone actually proven that compulsively checking your email won’t manifest the response you want

Whenever I thumbs up a message I feel like a boomer responding to the news that his first grandchild was born

I was explaining to my Ukrainian colleague the phrase ‘There’s no such thing as a free lunch’. She told me the equivalent in Ukrainian is ‘The only free cheese is in the mousetrap’ - which is so much better